First investigations are continuing into the explosion and fire at a Suffollk house which left a woman dead and a man in hospital. Eyewitnesses have described how the fire took hold yesterday afternoon in the village of Kentford.

Emergency services are fighting a fire at a house in Kentford near Newmarket in Suffolk. It started at 9.20 this morning in Bury Road. Six fire appliances and a turntable ladder have been called to the scene. One man was taken to hospital for treatment to smoke inhalation.